Product Management

One of my all-time favourite books isThe Hard Thing About Hard Thingsby Ben Horowitz, in particular, the chapter entitled ‘The Struggle’.
I can relate to The Struggle. All of it.
Product Leaders will likely find many of the struggles described in the book are just as relatable as the struggles entrepreneurs such asHorowitz’sface.
As Horowitz puts…

Note 1: This post may read like an attack on product management. That is not my intent at all. I love all things product. This post has been brewing as I interact with more and more companies struggling to define (and scale) product “management” in increasingly complex…

Some tips for Product Managers working with software developers:
They’re masters of coherence in arguments, information, and statements. Expect to be called out (bluntly) on something… and for them to be right.Don’t assume silence means a lack of interest.

These are not “rules”, but rathertendencies. We seem wired to go in one direction, and have to actively offset the tendency. I’ve fallen into each of these (repeatedly) over the years, and have observed extremely savvy product developers do the same. How do you…

All these years being into Agile I have worked with many Products and have come across various ways of working and detailing features.
Many tools coming in market which allows you to write user stories and they follow some framework to do so but what actually should be…

I was on a plane recently, and ended up sitting next to a CEO of a medium-sized company. He was deep in the email-responding zone for most of the flight, but finally took a break to have a drink. He wasobviouslya seasoned leader; I immediately had that “this…

I heard the word “Empathy” about 8 years ago at a Product Conference in the Valley. For those not in the Product Management circles here’s the Webster definition below.
Empathy: The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Over the…

One of the most common mantras in the startup business is “solve a real world problem.” In other words base your business on something that people need or want. And are willing to pay for. Its kinda obvious to state that B2B SaaS needs to solve a real business…

What is fun for a team of 10, quickly turns in to a nightmare for a team of 25, and a disaster for a team of 50.
Every time I see a startup scale up, I find them running in to and complaining aboutquality issues, communication break-down, stressful work environment…

It’s a book that is considered mandatory reading by many of the top minds of the startup world, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t partly drawn to it due to Thiel’s vehement support for Donald Trump. I was intrigued both by the book’s almost mythical status and…